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Pulaski Community Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pulaski Community Middle
Pulaski Community Middle is a 6-8 campus of big scale in Pulaski, Wisconsin, overseen by Pulaski Community School District, teacheing 846 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 122% bigger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 381 students.
Within Pulaski Community School District, which oversees 7 schools and 3,848 students, Pulaski Community Middle is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, Pulaski Community Middle shows that nearly all students (88%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at Pulaski Community Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Brown County's rate of about 39%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pulaski Community Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 63.9%, a residual of -0.6 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,649, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Brown County's 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,385 students), Pulaski Community Middle is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Pulaski High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Pulaski Community Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pulaski Community Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.8%.
Pulaski Community Middle operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pulaski Community Middle has stayed largely flat, going from 830 students in 2018 to 846 in 2025.
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- Pulaski HighHigh · 1,165 students
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- Fairview ElementaryElementary · 99 students
- Pulaski HighHigh · 1,165 students
- Glenbrook ElementaryElementary · 519 students
- Pulaski High0.3 mi · 1,165
- Glenbrook Elementary0.6 mi · 519
- Sunnyside Elementary5.3 mi · 497
- Lannoye Elementary5.4 mi · 288
- Fairview Elementary8.1 mi · 99
- Bay Port High8.9 mi · 1,966